History Main / DesertSkull

Whenever a show features or references a desert, savannah or other barren land, odds are good that a bovine cranium will be involved to set the mood. Do not ask [[FridgeLogic where the rest of the skeleton went]], because you won't get an answer.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "The Road", a young Ice Bear is seen wearing one of these as a hat after he and his brothers get lost in the desert.

->''"(...I'm just a pile of bleached bones. [[Blatant LiesI can't talk.]])"''

->''"(...I'm just a pile of bleached bones. I can't talk.)"''

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': As Simba returns to the Pridelands, he finds it riddled with wildebeest skeletons to show how Scar's rule has ruined the land. At the end, as Simba returns to power, there's a brief shot of a skull being washed away by the rain, to symbolize the end of the old regime.

* ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' - the 'Rite of Spring' segment shows the last of the dinosaurs shuffling into the desert dust - after which the camera pans to and closes in on the skull of the mighty T-Rex.

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Whenever a show features or references a desert, savannah or other barren land, odds are good that a bovine cranium will be involved to set the mood.

* There's plenty of skeletic remains for you to explore in the Western Desert from ''VideoGame/AvalonCode''. In a particular area, you find what appears to be the skeleton of a dragon, as well as the skeleton of the knight who failed to slay said dragon and the skeleton of the princess devoured by said dragon.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'': You can find a human skull (a former pirate) in the desert who you need to to carry around over your head until he spots the particular whirlpool you need to progress. [[JumpScare He does so by suddenly chattering his teeth.]]

* Check out any zoo's displays for desert reptiles or arachnids. Odds are ''very'' good that at least one hollow ceramic DesertSkull will be on display, as the den for a lizard, snake, scorpion, or tarantula.

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* The Matchbox/Revell [[http://s156.photobucket.com/user/blake7_11/media/Matchbox/PanzerIIIAusfL/PanzerIIIAusfL-06.jpg.html kit of the WW2 German Panzer III tank]] comes with a display base to mount the completed tank kit; it depicts a North African desert sand-dune, with the tank posed as breasting the crest of the sand. Just to emphasise the point this is an Afrika Korps panzer, there is a bleached animal skull to set artistically into the modelled sand.

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* In ''PioneerTrail'' (formerly ''VideoGame/FrontierVille''), these keep popping up on disused parts of your homestead.

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* These can be found in the desert levels of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance ''{{Fire Emblem}}'' games. Rare items can be dug up in the nearby sands.

** [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset Bugs wears one]] in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Wacky Wabbit".

* There's plenty of skeletic remains for you to explore in the Western Desert from ''AvalonCode''. In a particular area, you find what appears to be the skeleton of a dragon, as well as the skeleton of the knight who failed to slay said dragon and the skeleton of the princess devoured by said dragon.

* These can be found in the desert levels of the GameBoyAdvance ''{{Fire Emblem}}'' games. Rare items can be dug up in the nearby sands.

* Three ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips had [[CloudCuckoolander Jon]] [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/05/25/ bring home one of these]], which Garfield then [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset put]] [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/05/26/ on Odie]], while [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/05/27/ Jon was talking to his mother on the phone about it]].